When you volunteer to coach your child’s youth baseball or softball team, life, as you know it, is about to change.
Coach Dennis McCarthy talking to the kids in the dugout giving his team a pep talk. “Ok, team, what’s it going to be? Ice cream or pizza after the game? Before the first ground ball of the season is flubbed and pop up dropped, let’s take a moment to thank all the new mothers and fathers out there who have volunteered to coach their child’s youth baseball or softball team this year.It all starts out so innocently that first season.
The kids are so surprised when they actually hit the ball they just stand at home plate stunned before running the wrong way to third. Many of the weaker players have quit already because baseball isn’t fun when you’re sitting on the bench most of the game. Doesn’t the kid sitting at the end of the bench deserve a chance to pitch or play shortstop once in a while, too, if he wants?
I remembered that game. Kyle didn’t give up a run. His teammates mobbed him in the dugout and parents stood and clapped. They all knew what it meant to the kid playing right field for once to be the star.I had a kid named Louis, another right fielder, who was on second base one game when I was coaching third.
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